Search Results: Authors starting with P from Alkahest Books

Kalispell, MT: War Cycles Institute, (c. 1977) by Timberline Trust. hardcover. Very good/near very good. Octavo, brown cloth covers, x + 217 pages. Dust jacket spine a bit sunned, else very good. 061507C

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, (c. 1919). hardcover. Very good. Large octavo, red cloth covers with gilt titles and pictorial design in white. Xiv [2] 179 pages. Illustrated with a few color plates and many black and white plates. Includes appendix with two of the Victory Books Issued by the Committee: "War Gardening," Victory Edition, 1919, 34 pages and "Home Canning and Drying," Victory Edition, 1919, 32 pages. Top edge gilt. No dust jacket. World War I. 082504A

La Porte, Indiana: S. E. Taylor & Company, Steam Printers, 1876. First Edition. hardcover. Very good. Octavo, marbled boards with leather spine and tips. (re-backed with new quarter leather spine and title label, inked name on endpaper.) 467 pages. Hand-colored map in front, plus several pages of local ads. An important history of this county by its U.S. Congressman, Jasper Packard. A major portion of it, pages 289-399 are its Military Record, as composed by Brig. Gen Jasper Packard. Its military record includes The Black Hawk War, and the Civil War (with pages and pages of unit rosters). With many excellent advertisements, from photographers to the Electropathic and Hygienic Institute, and for the "La Porte Clipper" corn plow and cultivator. Rare.

London: Longman Rees, Orme and Co. and Richard Milliken & Son, Dublin, 1828. first edition. hardcover. Good +. 12mo, 3/4 leather over marbled board. 138 pages. Corners quite worn. Former owner bookplate on front paste-down endpaper. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author. " A clever poet and humorist of [Daniel] O'Connell's time, and author of much fugitive verse. Mr. W. J. Fitzpatrick possesses his paers, and refers to him many times in his 'Correspondence of O'Connell', where letters of P. V. F. are given. He assisted O'Connell very greatly and was rewarded by the Liberator's obtaining for him from Lord John Russell the post of Register of Deeds, Dublin." --The Poets of Ireland, A Biographical Dictionary, by David O'Donoghue. 041407A

New York: Whitney Library of Design, an imprint of Watson-Guptill Publications, (c. 1983). 4th printing.. softcover. Near fine/very good. Quarto, softcover (approx. 8 1/8" by 10 7/8"), 224 pages. Includes Selected Bibliography, Index. Many black and white illustrations. Near fine condition. Light wear, rubbing at edges on dust jacket. 122615A

Brooklyn, NY: Dance Horizons, (1978). first printing. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo, teal cloth covers, xvi + 224 pages.Top cover slightly sprung. Includes illustrated endpapers, many black and white photo reproductions, and index. Book is very good; Dust jacket has a little wear at head of spine, still Very Good "Ruth Page has been at the forefront of American and international dance as a dancer, choreographer, and company director for the past six decades. Taking her several times the world over, her career has touched and been touched by many of the most important movements and srtists of our time..." -- from the dust jacket. 061507C

Good. Octavo, 11 pages, no date or place given. Ex-library. This extract has been bound into a cardboard library binder with tape. The text is in good condition, but the binding merely utilitarian. 061507B

Cambridge, W. Heffer & Sons Ltd., 1934. Hardcover. Good. xii + 195 pages, octavo. James G. Forlong Fund, Vol. XIII. Cover corners bumped, some rubbing on front cover, Good. "In this book no Bengali characters have been used. Everything has been written in the phonetic script of the International Phonetic Association according to the actual pronunciation and without regard to the sometimes very unphonetic Bengali orthography," 041407A

New York: The Norman W. Henley Publishing Company, 1916. 1916 edition. hardcover. Good. Illustrated by over 1000 specially made engravings. Some folding diagrams. Large thick octavo (approximately 5 3/4" wide by 8 1/8" tall), red cloth covers with white titles and rules and black design of an auto and mechanic. 1060 pages + 32 pages of ads. Spine titles mostly rubbed off. Text clean and unmarked. No dust jacket. 112706A

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1892. hardcover. Fair. Octavo, ews cloth covers with pictorial design with bats and moon. No frontis., or illustrations present or called for in this edition. 203 pages [1] + 12 pages of publisher's ads. Damage to three leaves: 77/78, 79/80, 81/82. Some text missing on two of these leaves. Bleiler, 1978, p. 153 "collection of fiction including some with fantastic / supernatural elements." no dust jacket. 010608A

London and Edinburgh: T. Nelson & Sons, no date. hardcover. Very good. 16mo, (4 1/8" by 6 5/16") red cloth covers, 272 pages plus publisher's ads: xv[1]. Red cloth covers, 272 pages. Cancel on one leaf, pages 107-108. Black and white illustrations. 070400A

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1967. Hardcover. near Fine/good +. Pages pp: xii + 236. 8vo, hardcover. Book is in near fine condition; dust jacket has slight yellowing, rubbed on spine, good plus. 092108B

Chicago: Henry Regnery Co., (1965). first American edition . Hardcover. Very good/very good. 216 pages, octavo, hardcover. Translated by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Top cover corners have a little wear, still Very Good. Dust jacket has a very little wear at edges, Very Good. "ROMA is the work of a marvelous old writer, shaggy, confident and full of a succulence which no twentieth century Italians but Lampedusa and Gadda provide." --Richard Stern 010608A

New York: Simon and Schuster, (1967). Stated First printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo, black cloth covers, 318 pages. Includes black and white plates plus maps on endpapers and in the text.; bibliography, index. 092108C

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1914. 4th printing. hardcover. Fair/Good. Octavo, blue cloth covers, ix + 517 pages. Fourth printing, October 1914. Covers have large areas of discoloration on both front and rear. Text is unaffected, and in nice condition. A reading copy only, but includes a dust jacket that is mostly complete, but has pieces missing at rear fold and bottom outer corner. Bleiler, 1978, Imaginary Wars. 040414A

Washington City: T. H. Palmer, 1814. hardcover. Good. Octavos. Contemporary three-quarter red leather, and marbled boards, gilt spine titles and rules. Covers rubbed; former owner writing in ink and pencil on preliminary and early pages. Ownership labels in 2 volumes; some foxing, dampstaining. Includes Vol. !, Part I: From the Declaration of War in 1812 to January 1, 1814, x + 226. Vol. II, Part II: From the Declaration of War in 1812, to January 1, 1814, 351 pages. And Vol. III. Part I for 1814, vi + 328 pages. A 4th volume was published in 1816, (not present here) to cover the end of the war. Studio

New York: Scribner, (2009). first edition, first printing. hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo, white cloth spine over white boards, xxiv + 452 pages. Includes index. Book and dust jacket are in fine condition. 021210B

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1981. first printing. hardcover. Fine/very good. Octavo, black cloth covers, xi [1] 208 pages. Dust jacket spine slightly sunned, a little edge wear, still Very Good. 103010A. the authors" team up to investage a problem of utmost concern: how to survive the hazards of radiation. THis is a landmark book, the first ever to detail all sources of radiation, from the sun's ultra-violet rays to X-rays, microwaves, and high power lines." --from the dust jacket. 103010A

London, Asia Publishing House, (1961),, 1961. Hardcover. London, Asia Publishing House, (1961),, 1961. Hardcover. Pages 202,octavo, hardcover. Includes map of political status of African Territories; index. Covers faded, else Good: dust jacket frayed at edges, Fair. 073103A

London, Asia Publishing House, (1961),, 1961. Hardcover. London, Asia Publishing House, (1961),, 1961. Hardcover. Pages 202,octavo, hardcover. Includes map of political status of African Territories., index. Covers faded, else book if in Good condition. Dust jacket frayed at edges, fair. 080203A